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Not being adversarial: What kind of software licensing is Snapchat paying? Dev tools, ok. Some BI/reporting stuff? I'd imagine everything else would be open sou
by MichaelGG 10y ago
Not being adversarial: What kind of software licensing is Snapchat paying? Dev tools, ok. Some BI/reporting stuff? I'd imagine everything else would be open source, right?
- askafriend 10y agoThey run fully on Google App Engine and obviously they have to store all of that heavy video data somewhere so bandwidth costs will be crazy. So a combination of them not having their own infra like FB does, and just the nature of the data they are responsible for is very heavy.